Hello all! Casby here with a blog on (epic voice) VIRTUAL REALITY DEVICES! (*Echo* Devices, devices, devices.) Wednesday the class had an assignment of posting up a blog post on experiences with different types of virtual reality materials. This is what I found: Google Cardboard: Of course this being my first experience with virtual reality, it was awesome. I felt uh...kind of stupid though when I pulled the cardboard goggles away from my face to see that  I spun around in my chair and moved far away from the table I...

Virtual Reality! This is it. We made it, world. Time to make up for all the boring and painful aspects of reality by creating cool environments in VR headsets! (Right on!) Last Wednesday we had our first VR Storytelling class and we got to try out four different VR headsets models: the Samsung Gear, Oculus DK1, Oculus DK2, and Google Cardboard. Now, I had never experienced virtual reality before so going into this so I felt like a kid going to Disney for the first time. Actually, there are many...

As I approached the threshold of the Newhouse hallway to the secured room, my eyes were gleaming with excitement. I took my first step and immediately wondered where the stations were for the four virtual reality experiences: Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2, Google Cardboard, and the Gear VG. For some reason I thought I was going to walk onto the ship of Startreck, gadgets blinking and red buttons ready to be rushed.  However at first glance it seemed to be just another classroom, with a a couple computers and goggles...

When we were told we would get to try out all of the headsets during our first class, I got really excited. Here was a technology that I had only read about and I was about to experience it first hand. My group started at the Occulus DK1. I was rather pleased with this actually, as it meant I could see the progress from DK 1 to 2 and so forth. Having played other virtual reality games in the past (though nothing on remotely the same level as what I...

I rowed a boat in a river and swam with fish in the deep ocean. I did all that by sitting on a chair at the Newhouse lab and putting on the virtual reality device(s). I tried the four available VR headsets. The two versions of Oculus Rift, DK1 and DK2, the Samsung VR gear and the Google cardboard and it was a phenomenal visual experience. Everyone seemed excited to try the VR headsets. For some, it was not a novel experience, but many (including me) were trying these for...

Sanya Sood Assignment 1 Our first class gave me one of my first amplified experiences with Virtual Reality. Although briefly exposed to it while in Professor Elin’s class, I had never before used it myself. The experience was oddly fascinating - reminded of a clip that we, as Film students are shown repeatedly - a group of people in a theatre jumping away from the screen upon seeing an approaching train. Although our reactions were a bit more sophisticated, it did make me realise how we belong to a very...

As my experience started this past Wednesday, a lot of things happened. Some of which were restricted to a particular virtual experience headset while others were felt across the board. My first thought and experience was that while some of the headsets were bulky, like the DK1 and DK2, the feeling once inside of the experience was more enveloping than a lot of other 3D experiences that I have experienced in the past. On multiple occasions the only word that I could articulate while in the experience was "wow". What...

Google Cardboard: "Holy shit," a classmate who will remain nameless uttered under their breath once they engaged with the virtual reality street view app on Google Cardboard. I was hesitant to try it at first because, well, it's a cell phone surrounded by cardboard. I was dizzy at first (not sure why) and the cardboard did hurt the bridge of my nose. I had to press down somewhat so my eyes could adjust properly. Although the cardboard doesn't provide 100% concealment around the eyes and nose like other VR sets, it...